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Webster 1913 Edition


Enrich

En-rich′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Enriched
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Enriching
.]
[F.
enrichir
; pref.
en-
(L.
in
) +
riche
rich. See
Rich
.]
1.
To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of;
as, to
enrich
the understanding with knowledge
.
Seeing, Lord, your great mercy
Us hath
enriched
so openly.
Chaucer’s Dream.
2.
To supply with ornament; to adorn;
as, to
enrich
a ceiling by frescoes
.
3.
To make rich with manure; to fertilize; – said of the soil;
as, to
enrich
land by irrigation
.
4.
To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; – said of the mind.
Sir W. Raleigh.

Webster 1828 Edition


Enrich

ENRICH'

, v.t.
1.
To make rich, wealthy or opulent; to supply with abundant property. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures enrich a nation. War and plunder seldom enrich, more generally they impoverish a country.
2.
To fertilize; to supply with the nutriment of plants and render productive; as, to enrich land by manures or irrigation.
3.
To store; to supply with an abundance of any thing desirable; as, to enrich the mind with knowledge, science or useful observations.
4.
To supply with any thing splendid or ornamental; as, to enrich a pointing with elegant drapery; to enrich a poem or oration with striking metaphors or images; to enrich a garden with flowers or shrubbery.

Definition 2024


enrich

enrich

English

Verb

enrich (third-person singular simple present enriches, present participle enriching, simple past and past participle enriched)

  1. (transitive) To enhance.
  2. (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
    Hobbies enrich lives.
    The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture.
  3. (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly.
  4. (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
    • 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:
      European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
  5. (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
  6. (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify
  7. (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
  8. To add new elements, to complete.

Synonyms

  • (to make rich(er)): endow

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